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April 08, 2005
Sticky Situation
I got myself hopelessly tangled in my DYMO LabelWriter about an hour ago. Am I the only one who frequently gets outsmarted by office equipment?
I was printing off 30 labels during work and it seemed to be taking forever. In my impatience, I clicked "print labels" about 10 times. The machine started dispensing labels faster than I could blink. I tried to tear them off as they came out, but it was useless. My desk was getting covered and they were spilling off the top and down on the floor and around my phone and over my printer. Finally, I just started wrapping the labels around my wrists and neck and arms. By the time all 300 or so labels printed, I was wrapped up like a mummy.
*sigh* I'm just glad I got here early enough that nobody saw me, but late enough that there were other people in the building in case I needed help. Somehow, the newspaper headline of "Graduate Student Suffocates From Ill-Placed Labels" doesn't appeal to me right now.
The phrase "What a tangled web we weave" has a completely new meaning for me now. I wove my own tangled web of address labels. At least they still had the paper backing and I didn't have to physically peel them off my skin. I suppose it could've been worse.
I think I need sleep. That's my only excuse.
Posted by Anna at April 8, 2005 09:50 AM
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